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Canada
,
2014
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8 min.
Director:
Brad McDermott
Trevor looks back on his public education to find it coming up short against the realities of his adult sexuality; so he confronts his sex ed teacher. The short’s genius comes from its explicit, re-imagined animated sex ed materials.... Read more

USA
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2015
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72 min.
Director:
Michael Stabile
Porn and politics meet between the sheets and on the streets in this sexy, stirring account of infamous provocateur and heroic philanthropist Chuck Holmes, who parlayed his success as the founder of pretty-boy empire Falcon Studios into lifesaving LGBT activism.... Read more

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USA
,
2015
,
80 min.
Palm Springs, California, an oasis of intense heat and Speedo-clad hotties, and a haven of a healing community for throngs of aging gay men contending with HIV/AIDS in a lost horizon of rejuvenating sunshine, is profiled with remarkable candor in this elegant, dignified documentary.... Read more

USA
,
2015
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82 min.
A gripping, warts-and-all tribute to one of our most important gay activists, this documentary is a compelling account of the onset and terrible escalation of the AIDS crisis in the United States, an epidemic that came to define Kramer’s life and work.... Read more

100 min.
This intimate portrait of pioneering underground filmmaker Peter de Rome, chock-full of frisky erotic clips spanning three decades, charts his life and career as they unfolded alongside significant events in 20th-century gay history.... Read more

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

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It’s an only-in-San-Francisco story: closeted Indiana boy heads for the gay mecca, comes out in the fabulous 1970s, builds an adult-entertainment empire that redefines pretty-boy masculinity, befriends David Geffen and Bill Clinton, helps found the Human Rights Campaign, donates millions to community causes, succumbs to AIDS, and is honored as the namesake of the SF LGBT Center—all while indulging his obsession with hairless bubble butts in visionary porn epics. This bio, by turns salacious, poignant, and inspiring, belongs to infamous provocateur and philanthropist Chuck Holmes, the subject of the (a)rousing documentary Seed Money. As the founder of Falcon Studios, which made stars of a bevy of bronzed, blond Adonises, Holmes created hardcore extravaganzas like The Other Side of Aspen for the VHS-and-cocaine era.

Holmes parlayed his success into fundraising and activism. Though LGBT groups were happy to have his hard-earned moolah, they sometimes shunned their benefactor because of his background in the jizz biz. Today, Holmes is rightfully recognized as a hero both for liberating a generation’s libido and for supporting its members through their darkest days. Director Michael Stabile (Smut Capital of America, Frameline35) celebrates Holmes via interviews with porn icons Chi Chi LaRue and Jeff Stryker, Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears, politicos Mark Leno and Carole Midgen, and Holmes’s longtime partner, Hot House honcho Steven Scarborough.

— Steven Jenkins

This film contains sexually explicit material.

PRECEDED BY:Health ClassDIR Brad McDermott 2014 Canada 9 min

Trevor looks back on his public education to find it coming up short against the realities of his adult sexuality; so he confronts his sex ed teacher. The short’s genius comes from its explicit, re-imagined animated sex ed materials.